Balthazar

The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.

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  Alexandria · Egypt

  Alexandria in the 1940s: second volume of the Alexandria Quartet — the city itself is a character
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